KJV King James Version
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
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Isaiah 50:3
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”
WEB World English Bible
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.”
ASV American Standard Version
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
I clothe the heavens with blackness, And sackcloth I make their covering.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 50
1 Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
2 Wherefore, when I came, [was there] no man? when I called, [was there] none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because [there is] no water, and dieth for thirst.
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to [him that is] weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
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Revelation 6:12And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;Psalm 18:11-12He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him [were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies.Exodus 10:21And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness [which] may be felt.Matthew 27:45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
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